Tinerii responsabili recicleaza ( Responsible youth are recycling) its a 10 days youth exchange with 5 partners from Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy and Bulgary which will take place between 15-24 may 2016 in Marabu camp in Romania.The main aim of this project it's to develop the civic spirit of the youth in order to recycle creative in order to protect the natureThe project objectives are:1. To develop the civic spirit for environmental protection to 50 youngsters from 5 countries during the project 2. To develop the knowledge about environmental protection to 50 youngsters from 5 countries during the project 3. To develop the creativity and originality to 50 youngsters from 5 countries during the project 4. To develop the knowledge about creative reuse of recycled materials to 50 youngsters from 5 countries during the project 5. To offer the opportunity to live an unique intercultural experience to 50 youngsters from 5 countries during the project 6. To develop the trust and the self esteem to 50 youngsters from 5 countries during the project 7. To develop the entrepreneurship to 50 youngsters from 5 countries during the project During the project activities we will build a play ground in the village Milcoveni, were the exchange take place out of recycled materials gathered from the village were we will set up also a permanent exhibition with decorative objects made out of recycled materials.The project activities will be carried our based on the nonformal education principles promoting participation of the youngsters and local community using as a main working method creative recycling.

The project is a 17-month initiative, carried out jointly and coordinated by 5 youth non-profit and non-governmental entities from 5 countries of the European Union (Greece, Portugal, Italy, Hungary, and Spain) with a long history in working with young people at international level and with an outstanding level of experience and knowledge in the use of non-regulated and participatory methodologies. The main aim of this project is to improve media literacy and thinking competences among youth workers and NGO leaders, to enable them and their peers and colleagues to promote, organize and implement new educational (social, cultural) activities to disseminate both competences, using new settings and formats and by the means of NFL and ICL methodology. To be capable to read and interpret the different media and to communicate in a positive, constructive and non-violent way (out of fear, hate, and discrimination), we need to understand not only the meaning, relevance and benefits of critical thinking but also the different types of thinking (lateral, logic, systematic, negative, positive), not only because they are used by the media, but also because thinking, reflection, and feedback are a basic element of any non-formal and intercultural learning process. General project objectives are:1. To develop a more holistic understanding of media literacy and thinking competences and its connection, as driving forces to build more inclusive, participatory, and peaceful societies, as part of the culture of peace and nonviolence and as a relevant source of lifelong learning.2. To promote non-formal and intercultural learning as a valid methodology for the recognition, development, and validation of both competences.3. To build the competences of the teams of each organization, including youth workers (managers, educators, journalists, volunteer leaders, multipliers), so that they can improve their work through their development, as a way to empower other young people, including young leaders, professionals, and individuals with fewer opportunities, who are victims of discrimination, hate speech and other forms of violence, taking place both online and offline. The project will have a positive impact on the 21 youth workers who will participate in international mobility activities (two meetings and one course), including the 5 national coordinators and members of the national teams responsible for carrying out the local activities. Throughout the project, each entity will interact with other entities (at least 4), with which it will meet, plan, and carry out joint activities (such as the preparation of multiplier events or follow-up actions). The project has positive impacts on the people who participate in the various activities (minimum 10 activities with the participation of at least 80 young individuals in total), inside of the promoter entities (35 in total), in a number of youth workers in the different cities and countries and in a significant number of public and private entities in each country participating in the 5 multiplier events (100 people at least in total).It will empower young people to be more respectful and empathetic when expressing themselves and their views, opinions, thoughts, and life experiences.

"It has been estimated that the world's people with disabilities are 650 million. According to the WHO, around 10 per cent of the world's children and young people, some 200 million, have sensory, intellectual or mental health impairment. Both in poor countries both rich people with disabilities are generally the poorest and one fifth of people living below the threshold of a dollar a day, without food, safe water, clothing, shelterr. Taken into account the growing of the world population and life expectancy, thanks to medicine progress, it can be estimated that in 70 years of life 8 years would be lived with a disability, the 11,5%. As mentioned in the “European Disability Strategy (2010-2020)” paper (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/IT/TXT/?uri=URISERV%3Aem0047), only in Europe 80 million of people have a disability , one sixth of the population. Those people, that cannot fully take part to the social and economic life, due to their disability, show a poverty rate 70% higher than the European average. Given these statements, integration and inclusion must be the goals of an effective training aimed to prepare the individual - with and without disability - to take part actively to the society. These goals can be reached only by promoting new relation and knowledge tools able to look past linguistic, cultural, social and physical barriers. The project ""Dif-Abilities: Different abilities in non-formal learning"" aims to promote the learning of the new DTI methodology and a new approach to physical and mental diversability for youth workers, using the Tanztheater integrated . The training is intended for 24 people (including 6 disabled and 4 between organizers, trainers and facilitators) from 7 European organisations that will come together for a DTI methodology training at Saragossa (Spain). It will be based on non-formal education activities and it will address these topic: group dynamic, disability on stage, movement analysis, psychomotor behaviour analysis, how to solicit the viewer into an imaginary of diversity integration, action keys (space, movement, reflexivity); new approaches to diversities. The DTI methodology (Tanztheater integrated) it is a “learner-centered education” approach created by Anna Albertarelli (choreographer ) and Roberto Penzo (psychotherapist) trainers. The methodology is aimed to educate people to confront with mental and physical diversability, to narrate within the scenic space and to give the value to the performers and to make it inclusive The mobility goals are: - Increase the awareness of the participants regarding the social difficulties of integration and acceptance of ""diversability"" - Provide participants with the instrumental bases to operate in contexts of social inclusion, - Create new training strategies for aggregation contexts of social exclusion, - Promote the exchange of experiences in the approach with people with disabilities, - Motivate participants to work as multipliers in their communities, creating new social inclusion strategies, in order to have the deeper impact, - Encourage the exchange of good practices for social inclusion, and inspire initiatives for diversability who have as objective to help participants get rid of mental preconceptions or taboos related to this This project aims to promote a group of transnational and interdisciplinary work, whose objective is to help improve the knowledge base and the exchange of information for inclusion projects. Implementing their dissemination among young people who work with really no profit in contexts of disability in their territory. The documents, including a digital Webdoc, which illustrates the methodology DTI and the work of the group steps, will be the best interactive digital tool for disseminating to their country of origin, the culture of an Inclusive Europe."

<< Objectives >>With this project we wanted to increase the level of inclusion of Roma people and to raise the awareness of people against discrimination and their stereotypes about Roma. This project idea was coming from the prejudices and stereotypes against Roma and feedback, observations that we received from our communities and partners, we realized that there is a big need to break this discrimination and stereotypes. In order to do this and raise the participants current strengthens, we implemented this project.The objectives of the project were: 1. To increase the knowledge on civic involvement and participation of the 45 participants during the youth exchange;2. To develop the artistic skills (theater, music, dance) of the 45 participants3. To increase the confidence in their own forces and the motivation of the participants4. To increase the level of acceptance and understanding of interculturality and diversity for the 45 participants5. To develop the capacity of the 45 young people to plan, organize and promote educational and artistic events.Through this project we promoted tolerance among young Roma and non-Roma and reduce prejudices and stereotypes among the 45 participants. At the same time, we increased the level of confidence of young people in their own forces not to refuse to get involved or participate in something before they convince themselves that they can't, just because that's how they were told or that's what others think about them.This project aims was to reduce young people's prejudices and help them to value diversity, talent and knowledge. At the same time, our project responded to the needs of our association and our partners to develop new activities that ensure a constant and continuous participation and involvement of young Roma and non-Roma in their activities.<< Implementation >>In the youth exchange we will had a total of 45 participants as follows:- From Romania we had a group of 9 young Roma and non-Roma people from Resita city, Mociur and Dealu Mare neighborhood, two ghetto neighborhoods that face a lot of prejudices and stereotypes from the community (the people from Resita think that the roma people from these neighborhoods are thieves, lazy, unwashed, criminals) and the majority of the population avoids to get in touch with these communities. The young people in these communities are involved in a series of activities of the youth center in some organisation from Resita, and just few of them are student in our school, TRAIAN VUIA THEORETICAL HIGH SCHOOL, and havebeen the subject of some researches related to the level of unemployment or school dropout. Most of them did not finish 8 primary classes because they decided to leave school to work abroad or to start a family. Working abroad has made them speak different languages, in particular English and wish for more in life, but the disappointments experienced in the past due to prejudices and stereotypes made them not trust in their strengths and not get involved in community life.-From Macedonia the 9 participants were young Roma and non-Roma from the city of Gostivar, a small nord town where the Roma community is very isolated and the place they live is considered a ghetto, most of the population refusing to have contact with them. Some of these young people are local volunteers and want to show positive things about themselves and make the other residents of the city know them as they are, to accept diversity and interculturality and to be more tolerant. These young people face educational difficulties, exclusion, poverty and discrimination constantly. At the same time, an obstacle for them was also the fact that they belong to the Muslim religion, being discriminated against both because they are Roma and Muslim.-From Spain we had a group of 5 participants that come from marginalized communities in the north of Spain, most of them being migrants helped by this association, from Eastern Europe who are involved in the programs offered by the NGO. We had 4 participants from the last category mentioned earlier, from each country, and they will be considered the project experts and the ones who will prepare the scenarios for the theatre forum, LARP or of the different artistic moments staged by the participants.-From Bulgaria we had 9 young participants who, under the guidance of their NGO, came to promote tolerance, interculturality, involvement and respect of human rights among young people. They came from the region of Blagoevgrad, some of them being Roma or from families with serious economic problems, and due to their situation they are excluded or are excluding themselves from the activities of the community.<< Results >>Impact on participants:As expected, the project had a major impact from a personal development perspective. In fact, the young participants increased their self-esteem and confidence, they became more aware of their strengths and weaknesses and to overcome to some of them. At the same time, we offered them the opportunity to learn about theater, flash mob, participation and involvement and how they can motivate through these methods the other young people at the local level to become more tolerant and understanding on what interculturalism means. We wanted this project to have an impact on the 45 young people involved and make them more tolerant, moreunderstanding, more open and responsible when it comes to other young people in the community in which they live, or with violent or discriminating individuals or groups, they had the possibility to know the roma culture and the culture of the other five partner countries. We also realize that the young participants became better to understand what they need to do, to promote understanding, tolerance and interculturality among young people and make other young people in their communityunderstand better these things. They acquired new knowledge and skills, they had more trust in them. They developed their teamwork and social skills and communication in foreign languages. The participants knew more about the disadvantages of living in a ghetto and, in at the same time, learn more abouthow they can reduce the inequalities that result from it. They are more aware of the European dimension of education, European citizenship and civic responsibility, knowledge and use of Europass CV and Youthpass Certificate. By participating in this project, the 45 participants improved their artistic skills, learn how to organize and put into practice activities based on different forms of theater: LARP, Theater forum, Improvisation, flashmob. The young people also became more aware of the effects of prejudice, stereotypes and discriminations. Impact on partner organizations:With the partner organizations we have been able to strengthen our collaboration and work in a positive climate. We were able to improve their working quality, through the fact that we all acquired more knowledge and skills in developing the activities of theater and other types of street art, promoting tolerance and understanding, in disadvantaged environments. We expected and we succeeded to make the group leaders from every country to improve their attitudes, skills and knowledge in working with young people from disadvantaged groups, using the theater and other types of street art to promote tolerance and understanding in the community. By selecting disadvantaged participants from Macedonia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Spain and Romania and disseminated the result of our project we improve the imagine of the ONG in their country. They now are capable to sharing / exchanging experience / expertise about discriminations and exclusion also with other organization in their country. Impact on the other target groups:The residents of Brebu(especially the young people) and Reșița (especially the young people in the local high schools and the people from the three marginalized neighborhoods Calnic, Mociur and Dealul Mare) became more open to new people from other country and more tolerant and understanding after the implementation of this project. Expecially during a visit in the High school Traian Vuia, young people learn about the opportunities offered by the Erasmus + program and other EU youth programs. Young people and communities in partner countries are now more open, more tolerant, they will know more about mobility, about project results andabout Erasmus + opportunities. When they return home they will put into practice what they have learned about promoting the tolerance through artistic ways. In the long term, we believe this project will contribute to increasing self-confidence and self-esteem, civic involvement for promoting tolerance and understanding of young people in partner community.

Project management is a journey that has to be experienced and learned, day after day. There are so many essential tools we need, and we do not teach in school, we have to learn for ourselves. This project relates to this thought: go hand participant in this long journey. Confronting participants with new situations, situations where they have to react, make decisions, take a position of leadership or submission. Participants will have the place to get to know themselves and to reflect on how their attitudes have influence in their daily lives. Participants will also be led to think and to build a greenfield project that will be implemented during this activity, so that they can analyze all points from planning through to project implementation, taking the opportunity to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of your project. The couple will have the opportunity to discover at your own pace, what are the fundamental steps, what their difficulties are, what they want to learn, you need to know. This is the way that the young will go for this activity. This project will be held from 27th June to 2nd July 2018 in Vila Real, Portugal and will involve 25 young people from 8 different countries were selected taking into account some indicators: youth unemployment, economic crisis, lack of youth initiative and reduced associative movement. These young people should have an entrepreneurial profile, incorporating skills such as leadership, pro-activity, dynamism, ability to work in teams, critical spirit, empathy, negotiation skills and self evaluation. These skills and competencies will be beneficial both for participants and for their organizations, which will acquire new tools to encourage the local community to adopt an entrepreneurial attitude. This is a project that can be replicated in any of the partner countries, which will have a strong impact on local communities. We hope that future projects or business ideas may arise during the project, thus providing a starting point to promote cooperation between the various participants and the various NGOs. At a broader level, we will work so that each participant get to know better, their limitations and their capital gains, and that can transmit this learning to your local community. In the short term will be not so much a visible impact but a change of mind and thought that in the medium term, will result very positive practices, enabling each individual to be self-sufficient young, proactive and transforming the community at large in an active and enterprising mass.